Hitting 100 days straight is not a badge, it is a warning light. There is nothing noble about grinding through every single day with no rest, and your body and brain keep score even when you pretend they don't. The fact that you felt empty instead of proud tells you everything you need to know. That Friday walk was not just a habit, it was your signal to yourself that the week was done and you could breathe. Losing it probably happened slowly, one busy Friday at a time, until the weeks just blurred into one long stretch. Bring the walk back, not as a reward for finishing, but as a line you draw so the work does not swallow the whole calendar.

My grandpa taught me to use a 1/16 bit for pretty much everything and I did it that way for years without questioning it. Then I split the ends on a whole set of pine shelves in my own garage last summer, four boards ruined, and finally looked up what I was doing wrong. Turns out pine wants a bit closer to the size of the screw shank, so a 3/32 or 7/64 works way better, and I was just chewing up the wood with that tiny bit. For oak I go a hair bigger, like 1/8, because that stuff is so dense it splits if you look at it wrong. I always thought bigger bits just made loose holes that wouldn't hold, but that Tulsa guy and my own wrecked shelves proved me wrong. That chart taped in your lid is a smart move, I scribbled mine on a piece of tape too.